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To Face Uncertainty, Follow the Anxiety

The work of leadership is to show up to the moment, and both hold fast to the values and vision of the organization while also remaining nimble and flexible enough to meet that moment authentically. In these times of great change, where so much…
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Change Is Inevitable, How to Make it Tolerable

For years, I walked around telling people how much I liked change. I bore easily and tire of maintaining things. I like newness and the spark of building something for the first time or transforming things for the better. Truth is, I loved changes…
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What Gets You in the Door, Won’t Keep You in the Room: A Reckoning with Burnout

Burnout is rarely a personal failure. More often, it is a signal that the way work is structured, decisions are made, and success is defined is no longer sustainable. The grit that builds an organization in its early stages can quietly become the very thing that exhausts the leader who built it.
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By M E Clarke Consulting
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Your Leadership Matters

Your leadership still matters. Your presence, your care, and the way you tend to your organization and team matter. In fact, they matter more than ever. Yes, action is needed, but it may not be the action you think. Often, what is most needed…

Action in Stillness

When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2026, I was sound asleep. I woke the next morning in a new year, expecting to feel different. Our household had been taken down by the flu over the year-end holidays, and we were only just beginning…